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Drug raid nets fentanyl cache, guns, cash and vehicles
Cayley Dobie
cdobie@burnabynow.com
Two Burnaby residents were arrested following a police investigation that netted a cache of fentanyl with an estimated street value of $250,000. The New Westminster Police investigation into fentanyl trafficking began in September 2017 and is part of an ongoing investigation into drug dealing in the city, according to police. Led by the department’s street crime unit with the assistance of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, the Lower Mainland Emergency Response Team, Burnaby RCMP and Vancouver Police Department, the investigation came to a head on June 20, according to a press release from New Westminster Police. That day, police executed four search warrants at residences in Metrotown and one in Vancouver. Five people, including two Burnaby residents, two Vancouver residents and one Surrey resident, were arrested as part of the investigation. All were released and no charges have been laid yet, according to police. The searches turned up a number of vehicles, an undisclosed amount of cash, multiple firearms and ammunition.
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Police investigate alleged Camp Cloud assault
Kelvin Gawley
kgawley@burnabynow.com
Burnaby police are investigating after two pro-pipeline advocates were allegedly assaulted on Burnaby Mountain Monday. Andrew Mann, a volunteer with resource sector lobby group Suits and Boots, said he went to the gates of the Trans Mountain pipeline tank farm to scope it out for a demonstration planned for later that week. He said he did not intend to speak with anyone at Camp Cloud, but claims he was accosted by camp members after taking pictures. They accused him of taking pictures of protesters and their sacred fire without their permission. A heated argument between Mann and
the protesters was recorded in a video taken by Mann’s fiancee and shared with the NOW (the full video can be viewed at burnabynow.com). “Take off.You have no right here,” one man tells Mann. Another protester then attempts to block Mann’s fiancee from recording the video, and she can be heard telling him not to touch her. Mann said the same protester later attempted to “joust” him with an aluminum road sign. “So my fiancee and I [realized] two of us are not going to fight 12 of them and we
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This screengrab shows Andrew Mann (right) being confronted by a Camp Cloud resident Monday.
might as well just leave,” Mann said. “We go to our car, we put it in reverse to leave, and that guy with the baseball cap rips my licence plate off my car, tries to rip off my rear wiper [and] throws my licence plate into the bush.” Unable to drive away legally without a licence plate, Mann called the police. Cpl. Daniela Panesar with the Burnaby RCMP said police are investigating one member of Camp Cloud. No charges have been laid and the man has not been arrested, she said.
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Suits and Boots is a recently formed propipeline group led by Rick Peterson, a former candidate for leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Peterson said his group planned to stage a press conference with a bulldozer on a flatbed truck as a symbol of his group’s support for the expansion of the pipeline that runs from Edmonton to Burnaby. “We had no idea and weren’t expecting anything at all like that,” Peterson said, referring to the reaction from protesters. “It’s public property.They were on a public street, they were taking a picture as anybody is allowed to do.” Peterson said he believes the camp makes the neighbourhood unsafe. “Based on what happened there, I wouldn’t go there,” he said.
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